In both texts, Arthur and Gorlagon and The Wife of Bath's Tale, there are similar "quests", similar negative portrayals of women and similar narrative structures, yet different resolutions. Arthur wants to know the "ways of women", while the knight wants to know what "women most desire."
In the story that Gorlagon tells Arthur, women are portrayed as a devious traitor since the Queen chose to disobey Gorlagon and turn him into a wolf. Gorlagon tells Arthur that the women sitting across from him has no punishment that is justifiable for her actions other than a "perpetual exhibition of her great wickedness in the sight of all the world" (A&G pg. 60). The crime that the woman committed was having love for the youth instead of the king. On
